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  • From: "birdcr AT concentric.net" <birdcr AT concentric.net>
  • To: ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] anyone want to help with my first split today?
  • Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 16:14:59 -0600 (CST)

Folks,

I got a nuk ready for the split and set it up about 30 foot from
the mother hive, but did not do the split. Thanks to those who
offered to come out!

Still learning as when I got ready to do the split I realized that
what I took for queen cups were actually drone cells(eggless) that
were round sort of like a queen cup. So I'm not going to do a nuk
split until at least a week now. The 2 brood boxes are jammed with
bees, the upper 2 mediums are pretty full as well.

I would be grateful if anyone would be willing to help somewhere
about March 9-11 weather permitting? I'm leaving the nuk set up
with the un-drawn frames in it as a lure in case any bees (mine or
otherwise) happen to swarm.

Anyway this powered sugar treatment took out at least 200 mites in
a few hours, think I need another treatment if not two more.

Thanks,
Randy Emmitt
www.rlephoto.blogspot.com




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